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... courageous and erudite.
Gardner’s book will be an eye-opener to some readers (I’m one of them) who take the Louvre for granted as a semi-eternal and unchanging part of Paris’s cultural furniture. Just the fact that it first opened its doors as a public art museum smack in the middle of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror may be news to you. But the surprises don’t stop there.
... comprehensive.
... engrossing.
... a vivid chronicle of strife, wars, rivalries, and aspirations culminating in the present grand architectural complex.